Bigger problems
http://www.economist.com/books/displayStory.cfm?story_id=3D5016941
Oct 13th 2005
From The Economist print edition
IN THE course of 30 years as Middle East correspondent for two London
newspapers, the Times and the Independent, Robert Fisk has filled a lot
of notebooks with a lot of stories. Many of them are excellent. His new
book begins with a ripping yarn about his summons in 1996 to interview
Osama bin Laden. Setting up the encounter takes many months. The
process opens with an intermediary's call to "Mr Robert's" office
in Beirut. It continues with a mysterious meeting in London's Belgravia
Sheraton hotel, moves via New Delhi to a flight into Jalalabad's old
Soviet military airstrip, pauses for a sweaty interlude in the Afghan
city's Spinghar hotel and culminates, after an edgy night drive with
machine-gun-toting escorts, in an interview with Mr bin Laden at a
remote mountain hideaway.
The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East
By Robert Fisk
Knopf; 1366 pages; $40.
Fourth Estate; =A325
Robert Fisk
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